Below is a transcript from a C. H. Spurgeon sermon where he describes
the covenant of redemption and then wonders what it would have been
like to be to hear this sacred promise being made.
“Now, in this covenant of grace, we must first of all observe the
high contracting parties between whom it was made. The covenant of grace
was made before the foundation of the world between God the Father, and
God the Son; or to put it in a yet more scriptural light, it was made
mutually between the three divine Persons of the adorable Trinity.”
“I cannot tell you it in the glorious celestial tongue in which it
was written: I am fain to bring it down to the speech which suiteth to
the ear of flesh, and to the heart of the mortal. Thus, I say, run the
covenant, in ones like these:
“I, the Most High Jehovah, do hereby give unto My only begotten and
well-beloved Son, a people, countless beyond the number of stars, who
shall be by Him washed from sin, by Him preserved, and kept, and led,
and by Him, at last, presented before My throne, without spot, or
wrinkle, or any such thing. I covenant by oath, and swear by Myself,
because I can swear by no greater, that these whom I now give to Christ
shall be for ever the objects of My eternal love. Them I will forgive
through the merit of the blood. To these will I give a perfect
righteousness; these will I adopt and make My sons and daughters, and
these shall reign with Me through Christ eternally.” Continue at John Samson
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